Re: [Sheflug] Re: Open Office

[Steve Tickle <nospam [at] quarndon.co.uk>]

At 19:04 05/12/2000 +0000, Richard wrote:
>Chris
>
>Chris J/#6 wrote:
>
> > A 400MHz box is not slow ... it's about the average speed of a PC these 
> days,
> > I believe.
>
>
>Average speed for a PC these days is 600 to 700MHz. Even that's slow
>for a PC.  The latest Christmas presents for little Johnny will be at
>least 1Ghz in cpu speed.  Lots of bogomips there :)

600 to 700MHz may be the average for a *new* PC but != to the speed of the 
average PC in use today.

Speaking as someone who uses Windoze every day but would like to use Linux 
more, I thought half the raison d'être for Linux was to enable obsolescent 
machines have a new lease of life.

Steve


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